normandy

Book Review

Did the UK gain anything from the 1942 Bruneval raid?

I read Operating Biting in an afternoon and was sorry to put it down

Jonathan Boff

Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024

Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels

The Spectator

Joe Biden’s D-Day performance is evidence of his mental unfitness

He forgot where to sit, talked about the loss of Russian troops and sat in an invisible chair

Ella Johnson

A Spectator editor’s account of D-Day

The beach was alive with the shambles and the order of war. There were dead men and wounded men and men brewing tea

Iain Macleod

Europe

King Charles’s moving D-Day addresses

The monarch spoke, intelligently and affectingly, about how D-Day represented the finest hour that Churchill had promised his people

Alexander Larman